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05-16-2006, 06:45 PM
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| Bloomin' crazy   |  National holidays The Norwegian national day is coming up (hah! Today! May 17th), so I just had to start a thread about them (being a true patriot and all  ). I think I might have done this last year as well...Gah new board, new threads.When is your country's national holiday? Why is it set to that exact date (was there a spesific historic event that led to it?)? What do you do to celebrate the day? In Norway we celebrate May 17th because our constitution was signed on this very day in 1814. I think it's a very special day because we've been in unions with both Sweden and Denmark for so long. That's what got it started at least. What keeps it going is tradition I guess. Seeing as I am "russ" (should be anyway) this year it'll be a little special. I haven't taken part in any of the activities up until now (not too fond of the drinking and the fact that it all revolves around getting naked and having sex (sometimes in a tree, you'll get a condom in you hat or whatever). Preferably drinking while doing both), but I thought I'd join the parade. This is what wikipedia says about russ: "The graduating class from the Norwegian equivalent of high school - known as russ - has its own celebration on May 17, staying up all night and making the rounds through the community. The russ also have their own parades, in which they make parodies about various local and political aspects, although recently this has become less frequent." Other than this I'm working all day. Over-time pay, wohoo! |
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05-16-2006, 09:44 PM
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| Senior Member | We Americans have so many national holidays...so i would say either July 4th because that's the day when our Declaration of Independence was signed...tho Memorial Day, the last Monday in May is big and so is Labor day, the first monday in September and Thanksgiving day which is the last Thursday in November. |
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05-17-2006, 12:22 AM
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| Kamen Rider Kiva  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: www.canofnothing.com
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| Canada Day, July 1st. Nobody does anything. Ottawa likes to stage things for TV, but if you actually go down to parliament you won't see it. We all love you, Jean Chretien. Paul Martin ain't got nothin' on you. But we all miss Brian Mulroney, because his chin can bring world peace. We just didn't give it a chance. |
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05-17-2006, 01:41 AM
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| Administrator  | We have no day called America day. Martin Luther King Day, January 15, its his birthday Theres Columbus Day and Veterans Day There is Presidents day, just one arbitrary day to celebrate the birthday of presidents. Other then that I think Ox got them all There all national holidays with overtime pay and no school or other government things like mail. Nine days total. |
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05-17-2006, 03:31 AM
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| Administrator | Ya we'll take any holiday. Its a good thing those national days are named after there countries or we would probably take all them in to. St. Patrick’s is a day to go out drinking and partying. We dont get days off for it though, its not an official holiday. |
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05-19-2006, 11:04 AM
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| Kamen Rider Kiva Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: www.canofnothing.com
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| We only "celebrate" St. Patrick's day because we like to copy the Americans. And Victoria Day is another one of those useless holidays. Though this year I'm grateful for it because it gives me an opportunity to go out and make my movie. Nobody forgets about Canada. They just choose not to care about us. And really, there is nothing to care about. |
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